
Enhancing Marketing Success through Food Value Chains: A Guide to Creating Shared Value
The Emergence of Food Value Chains Food value chains represent a shift in the agribusiness sector toward integrating social mission objectives with business operations. These chains are characterized…
Read Full article‘Uber’-like platform to match heat supply and demand released
Until now, there was no efficient way for industries generating excess heat to provide it to nearby users who need it. This could provide potential income for the heat ‘source,’ and a way to lower…
Read Full articleMaking existing lending processes drive energy efficiency
Making existing lending processes drive energy efficiency A recent article entitled “ All Lenders must be green lenders ” by friend and EnergyPro collaborator in the US Sean Neil emphasised an…
Read Full articleORC Technology in Solar Thermal Power Plant
Turboden describes units allowing to convert heat collected by solar collectors into electricity through an efficient thermodynamic cycle. Concentrating Solar Power systems with Turboden ORC can be cost-effective in the range between 200 kW and 20 MW electric.
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Marina Lopez
We are just at the beginning of an energy revolution. As the future is not known, we experiment and explore. So do I. This is likely a good description of my role at EEIP. Sharing information of latest developments, ideas and use cases of new…
Author detailsLessons from the dim and distant past on how to reduce energy demand
The war in Ukraine, which now seems as if it will last a long-time, is one of the most important threats we face. Preventing, or in this case, correcting, the illegal annexation of a sovereign country…
Read Full articleHeat Recuperator in Air Transport
How to increase the environmental performances of airplanes and air transport? A 1pg paper illustrating a project by ACTE about designing and manufacturing an air-to-air heat exchanger directly installed in a gas turbine exhaust nozzle. The challenge: combine lightweight compactness and high effectiveness.
Read Full Business PracticeDirty Truth about Heat Exchangers
In this article, Matt Gutschow, co-founder of HeatCalc, provides some insights into the topic of heat exchanger fouling. What is fouling? What are the effects and what are solutions to prevent or at least control fouling in energy recovery projects using heat exchangers. Matt built his insights on the basis of hundreds of heat recovery projects in industry he has investigated over previous years.
Read Full Business Practice10 Facts about Cogeneration-CHP
Cogeneration (Combined Heat and Power or CHP) is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat, both of which are used. In conventional power plants, heat is not recovered when generating power, while in cogeneration plants the heat is put to effective use to provide comfort (space heating and hot water) or services (high temperature heat and steam) for homes, public buildings, businesses…
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